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You can refer to the following books to prepare for General Studies Paper 1 and 2.

• Spectrum’s A Brief History of Modern India, by Rajiv Ahir
• India’s Ancient Past, by R.S. Sharma
• A history of Medieval India, by Chandra Satish
• Indian Art and Culture, by Nitin Singhania
• NCERT Class 6th to 12th
• Indian Polity, by Laxmikanth
• Introduction to Constitution of India, by Durga Das Basu
• Certificate Physical & Human Geography, by Goh Cheng Leong
• Geography of India, by Majid Hussain
• Oxford School Atlas
• NCERT Class 6th to 12th
• Indian Economy- Ramesh Singh
• Economic Survey of India, by Ministry of Finance
• The Lexicon for Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude by Niraj Kumar
• NCERT Class 9th to 12th
• Manorama Yearbook
• Yojana Magazine
• Newspapers: Hindu or Indian Express
• Yojana, Kurukshetra, Frontline and the newspapers like Indian Express, The Hindu
• Analytical Reasoning – MK Pandey
• Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning– RS.Aggarwal

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You can prefer given below books for IAS preparation.



Economy -March of the Indian economy - I.C Dingra heed publications



History - Spectrum publications



Art and culture- Spectrum / NIOS



Polity - DD basu lexis nexis



Geography - leong - oxford very useful for physical geography



General science - 6to10 Ncerts



Environment and ecology - shankar



Hindu and Yojana for current affairs . Read daily hindu .

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